# The Silo Banning, Continued. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [July 5, 2001, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-silo-banning-continued/71339 "2001-07-05T13:05:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![JeffB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jeffb/32/188_2.png) [@JeffB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JeffB)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2001, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-silo-banning-continued/71339/21 "2001-07-05T15:06:41Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by don Jaime \* > Glad to oblige! Manhattan is a sour-tempered dipshit who sucks eight kinds of ass. He should be banned immediately and if you disagree, you are a Zotti brown-noser. > > How’d I do, how’d I do? I thought it was clear that _kinds of ass_ is a social construct and has no scientific, genetic basis. What are your “eight” kinds of ass? Some people say there are five kinds of ass; other say 12. One deviant even suggests that there are only seven kinds of ass. Just you wait until **edwino** , **tomndeb** , and **Collounsbury** get here. BTW, Capriati lost – I’m disappointed. ---
**Author:** ![Fenris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fenris/32/498_2.png) [@Fenris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fenris)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2001, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-silo-banning-continued/71339/22 "2001-07-05T15:21:13Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by don Jaime \* > \*\* > > Glad to oblige! Manhattan is a sour-tempered dipshit who sucks eight kinds of ass. He should be banned immediately and if you disagree, you are a Zotti brown-noser. > > How’d I do, how’d I do? \*\* Hmmmm… Not bad, nice use of invective, and you’ve got a great rhythm, but you didn’t tell us that this was your last post ever and then come back and post 14 more times and it really wasn’t long enough. I’m gonna only give you a 5 on the Meltdown scale (with, say Ph_dr_s and Freak being perfect 10s, and say…JDT being an 8.) But you show tremendous potential! 😃 Fenris ---
**Author:** ![Mars\_Horizon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mars_horizon/32/2804_2.png) [@Mars\_Horizon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mars_Horizon)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2001, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-silo-banning-continued/71339/23 "2001-07-05T15:21:51Z")
A moose once bit my sister ---
**Author:** ![BF](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b5ac83/32.png) [@BF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BF)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2001, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-silo-banning-continued/71339/24 "2001-07-05T15:37:21Z")
Shrubbery? _shamelessly padding his post count?_ ---
**Author:** ![Scylla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a5b964/32.png) [@Scylla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scylla)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2001, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-silo-banning-continued/71339/25 "2001-07-05T15:40:42Z")
I think a genral ban under these circumstances represents gross stupidity and mismangagement by people who really should no better. People are, after all responsible for their own actions, and we certainly don’t need John Corrado telling us how to live our lives. I for one would support a greater education initiative in this area. Truth be told though, some of the bottom-feed Silo’s are inherently dangerous, as they create a dome capable of collapse. The methane and other gases created by the fermenting vegetation do of course represent both an explosive and an environmental hazard. Proper ventilation is key. Workers in Silos must of course take great care to make sure they don’t create sparks, and must have their own independant air supplies. With common sense and implementation of safety measures, Silos are both safe and useful. Banning would be an egregious error, and I’m surprised that such a stalwart conservative thinker as John Corrado would support such a stupid stance. ---
**Author:** ![TomH](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/90db22/32.png) [@TomH](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TomH)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2001, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-silo-banning-continued/71339/26 "2001-07-05T15:45:56Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Myrr21 \* > Only a few short days ago did I learn that a perfectly good word over this side of the pond has quite an, umm, _interesting_ connotation over there. Tell us, tell us, tell us! And more to the point, why are you people wasting a perfectly good hijack talking about tennis (of all things) while the Ashes are on? ---
**Author:** ![aenea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c68b51/32.png) [@aenea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aenea)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2001, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-silo-banning-continued/71339/27 "2001-07-05T15:52:45Z")
> [@](#): > > _Mister Armageddon_ > Silo used to be a prick, which pretty much everyone seems to agree on. Then after a run-in with the mods, he got back on and was pretty much on good behavior for 18 months. This is just not true. Silo may have toned down his act for the majority of his posts, but he was still on occasion a raging prick to some of us. You were simply fortunate enough not to have gotten into it with him, and missed the threads where he was being a real jerk and got other warnings. ---
**Author:** ![Jester](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jester/32/8223_2.png) [@Jester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jester)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2001, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-silo-banning-continued/71339/28 "2001-07-05T16:27:15Z")
I, for one, find this thread to be offensive and repulsive. I mean, all you mods are just ignorant ass-felches, sitting around in your rich-ass houses, sipping your fifty-dollar drinks and oppressing all of us poor peons. And the rest of you people make me even sicker than sick in your unending support of this obvious aristocratic control. After a large amount of soul-searching, I’ve come to the obvious conclusion that I don’t need this fucking board. I don’t need any of you, and I definitely don’t need to sell my soul to manny, Tuba and that asshole Zotti. And it’s not like I ever took this board seriously anyway. I mean, the entire time that you thought that I was being all friendly and everything I was really just conducting experiments on you to see how different people reacted to stimuli and whether God really does update his hard drive and goat felch goat felch goat felch I’m my own person, dammit and I’ve been through a lot lately that not even one of you could possibly comprehend i mean my dog died and the i stopped taking my meds and I don’t need ANY OF YOU! GET OUT OF MY BRAIN! AHHHHHHHHH! I’VE GOT TO LEAVE! FUCK YOU ALL!! \ ---
**Author:** ![Jester](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jester/32/8223_2.png) [@Jester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jester)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2001, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-silo-banning-continued/71339/29 "2001-07-05T16:33:16Z")
Uhmmmmmmmmmm…can I come back now? I promise I’ll be good. I was just having a rough time. I…love you all? [sub]How wazzat?[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Diane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/2acd7d/32.png) [@Diane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diane)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2001, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-silo-banning-continued/71339/30 "2001-07-05T16:49:24Z")
{{{{Jester}}}} ---
**Author:** ![Myrr21](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e495f1/32.png) [@Myrr21](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Myrr21)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2001, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-silo-banning-continued/71339/31 "2001-07-05T16:50:29Z")
There’s something horribly amusing to me about the phrase “that asshole Zotti.” It’s something in the sound of it that I can’t quite put my finger on (maybe too many t’s and double consonants. I dunno). > [@](#): > > Tell us, tell us, tell us! Well, I guess I wasn’t thinking too clearly, because the word itself I knew; it was more that I said the phrase in all innocence, possibly because it never occured to me that anybody even _could_ take it to mean anything else: “…easier to roll bums for spare change.” Ok, it’s not that great. Mostly the image is what got to me. ---
**Author:** ![wring](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/838e76/32.png) [@wring](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wring)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2001, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-silo-banning-continued/71339/32 "2001-07-05T16:57:16Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Scylla \* > \*\*I think a genral ban under these circumstances represents gross stupidity and mismangagement by people who really should no better. > \*\* as opposed, of course, to those who ‘yes better’. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![don\_Jaime](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b4bc9f/32.png) [@don\_Jaime](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_Jaime)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2001, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-silo-banning-continued/71339/33 "2001-07-05T16:59:09Z")
Hmm. I misread - I thought I was trying for my own banning. Clearly not possible, as you need to have well over a thousand posts and several close personal friends to get banned here any more. I’m scribbling notes from Jester right now. He’s got it down. Let me try mine again. Ahem. Egg-sucking, chuckle-chowder-headed, spazzy, no-account, dickwadinous, baby-killing, chicken-stealing, lazy, puissant, mundo retardo, air-wasting, cannibalistic, asinine, useless, brain-dead, buttfaced, fecal, clammy-handed, double-dealing, underhanded, cowardly, incestuous, devil-worshipping, plug-ugly, shiftless, spineless, lily-livered, dry-humping, drooling, cretinous, two-faced, blabbermouth, urine-sipping, underhanded, lecherous, booger-eating, traitorous dipshit! You couldn’t moderate your way out of a closet! Take your God damned assfucking dipshit self back to whatever crappy part of Hell you came from, you moderator you! S’alright? I really want to do this right. Don’t spare my feelings, tell me if it was really trollish, or just a mild case of being elvish. ---
**Author:** ![thinksnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thinksnow/32/2849_2.png) [@thinksnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thinksnow)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2001, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-silo-banning-continued/71339/34 "2001-07-05T16:59:27Z")
> [@](#): > > \*\*Scylla \*\* > With common sense and implementation of safety measures, Silos are both safe and useful. Banning would be an egregious error, and I’m surprised that such a stalwart conservative thinker as John Corrado would support such a stupid stance. Yeah, but don’t you recall what happened to that guy in _Witness_? Drowned in a sea of corn, I tell ya! ---
**Author:** ![Bumbazine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bumbazine/32/362_2.png) [@Bumbazine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bumbazine)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2001, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-silo-banning-continued/71339/35 "2001-07-05T17:13:50Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Jester \* > \*\*Uhmmmmmmmmmm…can I come back now? I promise I’ll be good. I was just having a rough time. I…love you all? > > [sub]How wazzat?[/sub] \*\* ::checks clipboard:: [ul]Declaration of moral superiority - _check_ Reference to autocratic actions by moderators - _check_ Expression of disaffection - _check_ Gratuitous insulting of mods - _check_ Gratuitous insulting of other Dopers - _check_ Expression of pity for other Dopers’ failure to see the truth - _uh, nope_ Vague references to personal trials in real life - _check_ Expression of self-pity - _check_ Promise never to return - _check_ Return - _check_[/ul] You get a 9 out of 10 on my list **Jester,** A really excellent effort. ---
**Author:** ![Fenris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fenris/32/498_2.png) [@Fenris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fenris)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2001, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-silo-banning-continued/71339/36 "2001-07-05T17:54:49Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Jester \* > \*\*Uhmmmmmmmmmm…can I come back now? I promise I’ll be good. I was just having a rough time. I…love you all? > > [sub]How wazzat?[/sub] \*\* That, m’friend, was awesome. You didn’t threaten anyone (but since you _couldn’t_ do so even in a joke post, we’ll credit you with that) The only things you missed was a “You FOOLS! IF only you knew the TRUTH!” line and you missed the ever popular _Appeal to Invisible Authority_: “I have spoken to _certain people_ who _know_ that **Cecil’s** really, really, really PISSED at **Tuba and Manny** and is gonna go to their houses and kick their asses. And I have over 50 e-mails from posters who I won’t name because they’ll get in trouble who support me and hate you all!” Your psychosis could use a bit more paranoia too, but that’s merely a detail to an artiste of your caliber. So I’ll give you an 8.5 on the meltdown scale. Fenris, Melt-Down Critic at Large! ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2001, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-silo-banning-continued/71339/37 "2001-07-05T18:16:05Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Scylla \* > \*\*I think a genral ban under these circumstances represents gross stupidity and mismangagement by people who really should no better. > > People are, after all responsible for their own actions, and we certainly don’t need John Corrado telling us how to live our lives. > > I for one would support a greater education initiative in this area. > > Truth be told though, some of the bottom-feed Silo’s are inherently dangerous, as they create a dome capable of collapse. > > The methane and other gases created by the fermenting vegetation do of course represent both an explosive and an environmental hazard. Proper ventilation is key. Workers in Silos must of course take great care to make sure they don’t create sparks, and must have their own independant air supplies. > > With common sense and implementation of safety measures, Silos are both safe and useful. Banning would be an egregious error, and I’m surprised that such a stalwart conservative thinker as John Corrado would support such a stupid stance. \*\* Nice try you lying, fascist prick. Do you think that you’re dealing with a fucking amateur here? I know all about you “farmers” with your “grain” Silos. I know a lot of people who used to work for the US Government and I know for a fact that your little Silos actually contain nuclear weapons. How does it feel now that your secret is out, smart guy? Should Silos be banned? You’re god damned right they should. People like you make me sick. I bet you love it when people get bombed you war mongering bastard. Take your propoganda elsewhere and cram your Silos _and_ your black helicopters up your ass, you pathetic Government tool. I know the truth and I will not be silenced! Haj Oh yeah, I like Venus in the final. ---
**Author:** ![Jester](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jester/32/8223_2.png) [@Jester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jester)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2001, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-silo-banning-continued/71339/38 "2001-07-05T18:24:32Z")
\ Thanks for the tips, **Fenris** and **Bumbazine**! After all, Ah live ta serve. And I’ll be sure to keep all suggestions in mind for the next time that I melt down. After all, it’s only a matter of time, and I can only be pushed so far… ---
**Author:** ![omni-not](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8dc957/32.png) [@omni-not](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/omni-not)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2001, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-silo-banning-continued/71339/39 "2001-07-05T19:28:31Z")
Am I too late for the Corrado/Nazi thing? Would calling him Adolf be a bannishable offence? ---
**Author:** ![Scylla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a5b964/32.png) [@Scylla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scylla)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2001, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-silo-banning-continued/71339/40 "2001-07-05T20:43:56Z")
Hajario: > [@](#): > > I know all about you “farmers” with your “grain” Silos. I know a lot of people who used to work for the US Government and I know for a fact that your little Silos actually contain nuclear weapons. How does it feel now that your secret is out, smart guy? I saw that on **Airwolf** like 15 years ago. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-silo-banning-continued/71339.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-silo-banning-continued/71339.md?page=3)